Beachy Head,8.
Beauharnais, Auguste, Duke of Leuchtenberg,382.
Beauharnais, Eugène, viceroy of Italy,138.
Bedford, Duke of (Russell), lord lieutenant of Ireland,49.
Beilan, pass,393.
Beira, province,255,257.
Belgium,143,144,150,158,159,161,162,200,377;
Prince of Orange proclaimed,138;
troops,156;
Waterloo campaign,157-164;
united to Holland,166;
revolution,276,376-382;
elects Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg king,383;
war with Holland,384-386,393;
convention with Holland,387.
Belgrade,80.
Bell, Henry,427,434.
Belleisle,388.
Bellerophon, the, British ship,165,168,169.
Belliard, French general,383,384.
Bellingham, John,76.
Benevente,94,95.
Bengal,310,330,400,404,408,410.
Bentham, Jeremy,338,341,420,421,437.
Bentinck, Lord William,114,143;
governor-general of India,410-412.
Berár,399.
SeeNágpur.
Berbice,9.
Beresford, Lord George,242.
Beresford, William (afterwards Lord and later Viscount),47,96,103,109,118,119,211,222.
Berezina, river,125.
Berkeley, Vice-admiral,127.
Berkshire,281,341.
Berlin,53,81,134,310;
convention at,396.
Berlin decree, the,55,403.
Bernadotte, Marshal (afterwards Charles XIV. of Sweden),54,80,136,137,143,150.
Berry, Duke of,210.
Bessarabia,123.
Bessborough, Earl of (Ponsonby),287.
Bessières, Marshal,88,92.
Betanzos,95.
Bexley, Lord. SeeVansittart, Nicholas.
Bhartpur,399,403,408,409.
Bickersteth, Henry (afterwards Lord Langdale),363.
Bidassoa, river,112,114,115.
Bilbao,111,391.
Birmingham,178,236,272,285,295,297,304,335,435.
Biscay, province,109,389,391.
Bishopp, British officer,130.
Blackburn, Francis, attorney-general for Ireland,313,314.
Blackfriars. SeeLondon.
Blackheath. SeeLondon.
Blackwood's Magazine,423-425.
Bladensburg, battle,146.
Blake, Spanish general,88.
Blandford, Marquis of (Churchill), afterwards Duke of Marlborough,271,284.
Blanketeers, the,176.
Blomfield, bishop of London,324,341,373.
Blücher, Marshal,138,143-145,148;
Waterloo campaign,156-161,163-164.
Bohemia,64,137.
Bombay,310,398.
Bona,188.
Bonaparte, Joseph,10-12,21;
King of Naples,47,53;
King of Spain,59,88,89,92,98,104,106,107,109-111,122,123,190.
Bonaparte, Josephine (wife of Napoleon),382.
Bonaparte, Louis, King of Holland,46,53,78.
Bonaparte, Napoleon,6,19,39,41,42,51,53-56,58,62,64-66,78,80-82,87-89,91,92,95,96,99-102,104,105,109-112,114,115,117,119,120-126,128,143,145,148,150,168,171,186,199,382;
concordat with the pope,7;
refuses overtures of peace,8;
meets Cornwallis,10;
elected president of the Italian republic,12,17;
plans for the invasion of England,8,35,38,41,71;
attacked by French exiles in London,12,17;
consul for life,15,17;
Fox presented to him,15,16;
annexes Piedmont,17;
mediates in Switzerland and Germany,17;
schemes of colonial expansion,18;
Whitworth,20-22;
declared emperor,33,34;
plots against his life,33,34;
coronations,35,37,38;
Ulm and Austerlitz,42,64;
Jena and Auerstädt,47,55,64;
Eylau,51,56;
Friedland,52,122,401;
meets Alexander,52;
"continental system,"53,55-58,78-80,83,87,105,171,403;
manifesto,57;
at Erfurt,59;
Eckmühl and Wagram,60,63;
Borodino,63,124;
Leipzig,63,114,118,133,137,138;
marriage with Maria Louisa,78;
fiscal policy,79;
first abdication,82,118,145;
in Spain,92,94;
war with Russia,121-126,402;
campaign of 1813,132-138;
Lützen and Bautzen,135;
Dresden,137;
campaign of 1814,143-145;
La Rothière,144;
Arcis-sur-Aube,145;
treaty of Fontainebleau,145,146;
Elba,145,146,153,201;
"The Hundred Days,"151,153-165;
Ligny,158,159;
Quatre Bras,159;
Waterloo,160-165;
second abdication,165;
St. Helena,166,167,169,170,402;
designs on India,401-403.
Bond, Nathaniel, M.P.,36.
Bonnymuir,193.
Bordeaux,118,154;
road to,117.
Bordeaux, Henry, Duke of. SeeChambord, Count of.
Borisov, battle,125.
Borodino, battle,63,124,164.
Bosphorus, the,267,394.
Boston (United States),142.
Botany Bay,438.
Boulogne,8,35,38.
Boulton, Matthew,435.
Bourbon, island,69,403.
Bourbon, Duke of,154.
Bourne, W. Sturges,341;
home secretary,227;
first commissioner of woods and forests,228,229.
Braga,258.
Bragge, Charles (afterwards Bragge-Bathurst),28,68,202;
chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster,81,82,174;
president of the board of control,199.
Brahmaputra, the,408,409.
Braine l'Alleud, Belgian village,162.
Brand, M.P.,284.
Brazil,89,190,211,221,222,253,254,259,388;
commercial treaty with England,222.
Brereton, Colonel,298.
Breslau,134,135.
Brest,39,55.
Brewster'sEncyclopædia,424.
Bridgwater Treatises, the,338.
Brienne,143.
Brighton,350.
Brindley, James,434.
Bristol,175,297,298,302,309,435.
British Association, the,338.
Brittany,154.
Brock, Major-general,129,130.
Broke, Captain,142.
Brooks's club. SeeLondon.
Brougham, Henry (afterwards Lord Brougham and Vaux),48,172,173,182,193-196,207,228,234,241,242,274,277,278,280,357-359,363,423,431;
lord chancellor,281,282,287,295,325,338,343,345,346,348,351;
legal reforms,332,333,358,359,361.
Broussa,393.
Brown, American commander,146.
Bruce, Michael,436.
Brünn,42.
Brunswick,196.
Brunswick (Charles), Duke of,184n.
Brunswick (Frederick William), Duke of,159.
Brunswick, troops,158.
Brunswick clubs,243.
Brussels,158-161,378,379,381,383,384,387.
Bucentaure, the, French ship,40.
Bucharest, treaty of,123.
Buckingham, Marquis of (Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville), afterwards Duke of,199,295.
Buckingham palace. SeeLondon.
Buckinghamshire,281.
Buckinghamshire, third Earl of (Hobart),1.
Buckinghamshire, fourth Earl of. SeeHobart, Lord.
Buckland, William, Dean of Westminster,340.
Buenos Ayres,47,56,57,205,216,223.
Bukowina,224.
Bulgaria,263,267.
Bull-baiting,15.
"Bullion committee," the,73.
Bülow, Frederick William von, General, afterwards Count,143,145,163,164.
Bulwer, Edward Lytton (afterwards Lord Lytton),426.
Burdett, Sir Francis, M.P.,51,72,175,226,240-242,284,285,298,374.
Burgess, Thomas, bishop of St. Davids,430.
Burgos,92,108,110.
Burgundy,154.
Burke, Edmund,308,415,422.
Burlington Heights,139,140.
Burma, first Burmese war,408,409;
treaty with East India Company,409.
Burnes, Sir Alexander,413,414.
Burns, Robert,415.
Burrard, Sir Harry, general,90,91,93.
Bussaco,101,113.
Butrinto,188.
Buxton, Thomas Fowell, M.P.,326,327.
Bylandt, Dutch general,162.
Byron, Lord,233,417-419.
Cachar,411.
Cadiz,8,39-41,89,96,100,102-104,109,256.
Cadoudal, Georges,33.
Cairo, capture of,6.
Calabria,47.
Calcott, Sir Augustus,427.
Calcutta,398,402,408,412.
Calder, Sir Robert,39.
Caledonian canal,434.
Cambridge. SeeUniversities.
Cambridge (Adolphus), Duke of (son of George III.),184,185.
Cambridgeshire,175n.
Camden, Earl (Pratt), afterwards Marquis Camden, secretary for war and colonies,34,37;
lord president of the council,37,50,66,67;
in cabinet without office,76,82.
Camelford,193.
Campbell, Lord,361,363.
Campbell, Sir Archibald,409.
Campbell, Sir Neil,153.
Campbell, Thomas,420,431.
Canada,128,147,157,225,312,437,438;
attacked by the United States,129,130,139-141,146.